Julian McGauran (Victoria, National Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

A message has been received from the House of Representatives agreeing to the resolution of the Senate with an amendment relating to the appointment of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters. Copies of the message have been circulated in the chamber.

Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to have the message considered immediately.

Leave granted.

I move:

That the Senate concurs with the resolution of the House of Representatives contained in message no. 141 relating to an amendment to the variation to resolution of appointment of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters.

The amendment read as follows—

  After Paragraph (2), insert:

(3)   For the purposes of this inquiry only, the resolution of appointment be amended by inserting the following paragraph:

(3A)   That participating members may be appointed to the committee. Participating members may participate in hearings of evidence and deliberations of the committee, and have all the rights of a member of the committee, but may not vote on any questions before the committee.

Question agreed to.